Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 4.4 times bigger than South Korea.

South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 340% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (11.4 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Korea vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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